Overview

• Coronial inquest found insufficient evidence to establish the cause, manner or location of three-month-old KP’s death.
• KP’s body was discovered wrapped in a blanket on the top shelf of a freezer during a welfare check at a Corowa property in January 2022.
• Coroner Pearce described the mother’s account of leaving KP with an unidentified man as inherently implausible and unsupported by evidence.
• The Department of Communities and Justice and local health services missed intervention opportunities but were unlikely to have altered the outcome.
• Pearce recommended Albury Wodonga Health and Murrumbidgee Local Health District formalize governance of the Safe Start program to improve early support for at-risk families.